Working to ensure sustainable, resilient & healthy food supplies for all
This aspect of N8 AgriFood’s work focuses on food supply systems to deliver better resilience while improving nutrition, reducing environmental impacts and sustaining economies fairly.
Global food security exists when people have physical, social and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to maintain active, healthy lives, but globally, achieving food security must also promote sustainable development. This lies at the complex nexus of economic growth, resource demand, environmental sustainability and public health.
The challenge is to integrate our understanding of food supply networks from food production and supply through to consumption and nutrition to identify and apply innovative practices to adapt the UK’s food supply network.
A multi-disciplinary workshop examined the feasibility of taking a multi-actor, food systems approach to examine the impacts of transitioning to lower sugar consumption for the prevention of obesity on environmental resilience throughout the food system.
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A £3.3 million, four year project started in October 2016, led by The York Management School’s Professor Bob Doherty with collaborators from across the University of York and the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester.
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The University of York and Lancaster University joined forces for first study of supply chain resilience to constitutional change in the face of the UK’s exit from the European Union – with the findings presented before MPs and Lords at the House of Commons
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